get lit
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Royal Watch: That Time Meghan and Harry Popped Up in a Youth Poetry Class for Black History Month
These many (many) months of quarantine may not have been the most socially stimulating of our lives, but they have provided ample opportunity to step our virtual community up—and to make the best of a socially distanced situation. Then, there have been the pleasant virtual pop-ups—like this time last week, when President Obama surprised the…
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Local Non-Profit Helps Los Angeles High School Students ‘Get Lit’
A Los Angeles-based nonprofit is helping local high school students to learn to love and appreciate poetry, and recently turned a group of them into published poets. Get Lit, founded in 2006 by Diane Luby Lane, is an organization that brings poetry into schools and “fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy…